My example was this. Last time I came back to Australia I drove taxis. And a lot of the drivers are ethnic minorities with about 50% being Indians, primarily punjabi.

I was attacked by a motorcycle cop, who was smart enough to lean his body away when he grabbed me through the car window so his body cam didn't show it. The taxi has cameras and I hit the emergency button that takes photos and records sound except there was a fault and it hadn't been working for 3 days(I didn't know this). I got arrested and spent a night in the watch house for assaulting a police officer. I went to court, as even being charged meant I lost my job, I had to represent myself. The free court lawyers would only help you if you plead guilty.

We have mandatory sentencing of 1 year in jail for assaulting a police officer which is even if you touch them.

I got 240 hours community service, less than the mandatory. 180 hours in, with no money coming in I went to my probabation officer and said I can't do it anymore and they said they would support my petition in the courts but warned me the judge might turn around and jail me. At that point, jail was free food, free board and probably free sex( not with anyone you liked though).

Anyway, the second judge said as part of the process they have to look at the original judgment and she said it was ridiculous and wiped it clean, quashing my conviction and I was free. All this without a lawyer.

And I realised at that moment, if I had been any shade darker, if my English was any less articulate, if I didn't look so good in a suit- I would have gone to jail in the first instance and would have had little prospect of appeal. I absolutely knew this in my bones. And I saw the system, from the free lawyers, and so on and felt the whole system is stacked against you by design and twice as much or more if you are a person of colour or have poor English.